“The universe is large and it contains multitudes, but it also contains me.”Neon has released the first full trailer for Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck” starring Tom Hiddleston. Based on Stephen King’s novella of the same name, “The Life of Chuck” is told in reverse, following Tom Hiddleston’s Chuck Krantz from his death and ending with his early childhood. It released in theaters on June 6.Be...
Jury selection began for Harvey Weinstein’s retrial Tuesday morning in New York City after his landmark #MeToo conviction was overturned last year.Weinstein, in a wheelchair and carrying a book with the cover torn off, had a brief smile on his face as he approached his legal team in the courtroom.The first group of prospective jurors — consisting of approximately 70 individuals — was eventually sw...
Multiple Emmy winner Laura Linney has found her next TV project.Linney has joined the cast of American Classic, a comedy series at MGM+. She’ll star opposite Kevin Kline and Jon Tenney in the show, in which a disgraced Broadway star (Kline) returns to a family-run theater in his hometown. The show comes from creators Michael Hoffman (Soapdish, The Last Station) and Bob Martin (Slings and Arrows).K...
“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” which was ranked as the TV series with the most words-per-minute in 2023 by WordFinderX with 176.2 words per minute, is not the chattiest show on TV anymore.A new study by Kapwing, an online content creation platform, revealed that cop comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” now holds the title as the wordiest TV show with 206 words per minute spoken on average. The sitcom,...
The Peabody Awards revealed the nominees on Tuesday in the Documentary, News, Public Service and Radio/Podcast categories, which were selected by the Board of Jurors. Nominees were chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from more than 1,000 entries from multiple categories.In the Documentary category, Oscar-nominated films “Sugarcane” and “Black Box Diaries” lead the way, along with Will Ferrell’...
Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial began Tuesday in a New York court, where jury selection began with 70 prospective panelists – many of whom told the judge straightaway that they could not be impartial.Weinstein was wheeled into the courtroom late in the morning, carrying a book with the cover torn off, according to multiple media reports. When Judge Curtis Farber asked the group to raise a hand if...
“Warfare” is an exceedingly realistic war film. The new A24 thriller from co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza depicts in real-time an Iraq War firefight that goes increasingly wrong for a troop of Navy SEALs. Its ensemble cast features up-and-coming Hollywood stars like Joseph Quinn (“The Fantastic Four: First Steps”), Will Poulter (“The Bear”), Charles Melton (“May December”), Cosmo Jarvis...
At long last, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte are coming back. Max has released the trailer for Season 3 of “And Just Like That…” the streamer’s follow-up to “Sex and the City.”The first trailer for the 12-episode season, which kicks off a weekly drop with its May 29 premiere, previews all the ladies kicking off new chapters in the summertime — Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) dives into the world of r...
Max has released the official trailer for “And Just Like That” Season 3, debuting May 29 on the streaming platform.When viewers last saw Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw on “And Just Like That” — during the Season 2 finale, which aired in August 2023 — she had just ordered a Cosmopolitan on a beach in Greece. Today, at long last, Max announced the premiere date for Season 3, and dropped the...
Fox Sports has picked up the documentary “Culture of Winning: Polynesian Football Pride,” which will premiere this weekend. The programmer has unveiled an official trailer showcasing Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Variety can exclusively reveal.Executive produced by and featuring Tagovailoa, the new documentary captures the success of Polynesian NFL players and the impact their sports...
Stan Lee’s daughter, J.C. Lee, has spoken out about previous allegations that she abused her parents in their old age, calling them “all lies.”In a new interview with Business Insider, the daughter of the Marvel Comics legend denied that she exploited Stan Lee and physically abused him and her mother, Joan. “I never ever touched my parents,” she said.A few months before Stan Lee’s death in Novembe...
And just like that… Carrie Bradshaw is back — this time, as an aspiring fiction writer and pen pal to Aidan.Max has dropped the trailer and release date for the Sex and the City sequel series that follows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and their friends as they navigate family, love and friendship 20-plus years after the original series conclud...
Jennifer Tiexiera and Guy Mossman’s documentary “Speak” follows five American teenage speech competitors, whose dream is to win the Super Bowl of public speaking – the National Speech & Debate Association Nationals.The eclectic cast of student orators are Noor, Noah, Sam, Mfaz, and Esther, the two-time reigning national champion in Oratory. The doc blends snippets of each teen’s personal lives...
Netflix and HBO/Max led the documentary category, while PBS led news, as Peabody unveiled its nominees for the documentary, news, public service and radio podcast categories for its 85th competition. Chosen out of programs broadcast and streamed in 2024, Peabody’s 27 jurors chose nominees by unanimous vote out of more than 1,000 entries across television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainmen...
The day after the 2024 election, Jimmy Kimmel was on the verge of tears on his eponymous late-night show as the host, who just earlier in the week had urged his audience to “move on already” from Donald Trump, as he reacted to the news that Trump had won a second term.“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go...
¡Ay, caramba! Nancy Cartwright, the iconic voice of Bart Simpson and other characters from “The Simpsons,” will pull back the curtain on the long-running animated hit show in her first podcast.The voice actor is launching “Simpsons Declassified With Nancy Cartwright” in partnership with radio and podcast company Audacy. The audio and video podcast hails from Cartwright and Monica Gil-Rodriguez’s C...
American Cinematheque’s annual ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ festival will expand beyond Los Angeles to seven cities across the United States and internationally to London in June. In addition to continuing operations at the Aero, Egyptian and Los Feliz 3 Theatres across Los Angeles, ‘Bleak Week’ will come to the Portland’s Hollywood Theatre, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Dallas’ Texas Theatre, M...
DreamWorks Animation is setting sail for a magical island.The Universal-owned animation studio announced a new original movie on Tuesday that’s titled Forgotten Island. It will hit open in theaters on Sept. 25, 2026.Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is described as a broad party comedy adventure that transports the film’s protagonists to a long forgotten, magical island rooted...
“Forgotten Island” will soon be found.The latest project from “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” director Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, who served as co-director on the “Puss in Boots” sequel, will arrive in theaters on Sept. 25, 2026, from Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation. The pair also wrote the film.The new movie will be produced by Crawford’s longtime collaborator Mark Swift. Swift...
Good Night, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, broke its own weekly record to become the highest grossing play in Broadway history.The production led the industry grosses last week with $3.78 million garnered across eight performances, in the first full week following the play’s April 3 opening. This also broke the house record for eight performances at the Winter Garden Theatre. The average...
The 2025 Peabody Awards have announced the first batch of this year’s nominees.Nominations in the documentary, news, public service and radio/podcast categories, recognizing impactful stories from broadcasting and streaming media, were revealed on Tuesday.Noteworthy documentary contenders selected by the Peabody board of jurors include Oscar-nominated docs Black Box Diaries and Sugarcane, as well...
The execs at Microsoft, Warner Bros. and Legendary can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as “A Minecraft Movie” proves to be a certified hit after its second big weekend at the box office.Heading into the Jack Black and Jason Momoa-led movie’s April 4 launch, uncertainty surrounding how the project would perform was high, but Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer was ready for whatever reaction...
E. Jay Krause, the set designer who won two Primetime Emmy Awards and created the influential looks of “The Hollywood Squares” and “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” died April 12 in Los Angeles. He was 98.Over the course of his decades-spanning career from the ’50s to the ’70s, Krause designed sets for over 180 productions, working with performers like Bob Hope, the Jacksons, Diana Ross and Mitzi G...
Brothers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (The Kings of Tupelo) are back with more of their excellent Netflix sports-documentary series, Untold. And if you thought the guys might be running out of compelling subjects to cover, well, they got Gilbert Arenas this time.There was a time in the early 2000s when Arenas was one of the NBA’s elite scorers. That All-Star-caliber career, and teammate Javaris Cri...
“Doctor Who” has returned.The legendary British sci-fi series, which first debuted back in 1963 and ran until 1989 before being resurrected, in earnest, in 2005, has just started a new season on Disney+ and the BBC. It is the second season of the newly co-produced series, with the effervescent Ncuti Gatwa returning as the titular Doctor, alongside executive producer and head writer Russell T. Davi...
Andor debuted its second and final season in Los Angeles on Monday night, as star Diego Luna and creator Tony Gilroy reflected on closing out the story of Cassian Andor.The character first appeared in 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which Gilroy co-wrote; then prequel series Andor arrived in 2022, now ending in 2025.“Being in this universe and belonging to this family and being part of a proj...
You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information.“Adolescence” is now the third most-watched Netflix series ever with more than 124 million views since its March premiere.The British drama series, chronicling a 13-year-old killing a classmate, beat the viewership of “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” as it con...
Tommy Davidson will reprise his “Martin” role of Varnell Hill in a spinoff of the ’90s sitcom ordered by BET+ and co-created by Martin Lawrence and Bentley Kyle Evans.The series takes viewers behind the scenes of “The Varnell Hill Show,” the fictional late-night talk show hosted by Davidson’s character. It’s a workplace comedy set amidst the chaos of TV production.Per the logline, “The series expl...
Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “Rebuilding,” a wildfire drama from director Max Walker-Silverman and starring Josh O’Connor, Lily Latorre and Meghann Fahy. The film premiered at Sundance this past January and will be the opening film of the San Francisco Film Festival this Thursday.O’Connor stars in the film as Dusty, a cowboy who loses his ranch to devastating wildfi...
“Rebuilding,” a drama starring Josh O’Connor as a cowboy who loses his ranch to wildfires, has sold U.S. rights to Bleecker Street. The film premiered at Sundance and will debut in theaters later this year.Max Walker-Silverman directed “Rebuilding,” which follows Dusty, a rancher who is forced into a Fema camp and unexpectedly reconnects with his estranged daughter and ex-wife while reconstructing...
Earlier this year, when he told his colleagues that he would be leaving NBC News, former Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd said that he had an entrepreneurial itch that he needed to scratch.“The only way to fix this information ecosystem is to stop whining about the various ways the social media companies are manipulating things and instead roll up our collective sleeves and start with local,” h...
Lil Nas X was hospitalized Monday after he “lost control of the right side of” his face.The rapper opened up about the recent medical scare in an Instagram post where he showed footage of himself attempting to move his face. “And when I smile,” he said while trying to smile but proving unsuccessful on his right side. “This is me doing a full smile right now, by the way.”The right side of Lil Nas X...
After her somber, awards-nominated roles in Killers of the Flower Moon and Under the Bridge, Lily Gladstone has quickly established herself as a top dramatic actress in Hollywood — but she wants you to know she can do comedy, too.Gladstone makes a rom-com pivot with The Wedding Banquet, starring alongside Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan in a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 original Taiwanese...
Prolific documentarian and HBO nonfiction lodestar Alex Gibney’s last project for the premium cable network was Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos. The 2024 two-parter was a puppy dog-eager piece of fan service in which Gibney was the biggest fan of all, peppering David Chase and much of the surviving cast of The Sopranos with all of his questions. It was, in the grand scheme of things, perhap...
“The Handmaid’s Tale” creator Bruce Miller said Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), who dabbles between her solidarity to Gilead and her desire to be an independent woman is in part due to the complicated relationship she has had with the men in her life, specifically her father. Miller explained the creative team’s decision to introduce her quiet yet stoic father was partially rooted in ans...
Soleil Moon Frye, director of The Carters: Hurts to Love You, hopes others will see a piece of themselves in the Carter family story.That was her mission, she tells The Hollywood Reporter when setting out to make the film on the family’s battle with mental health and addiction issues.Frye’s task was also, she says, to help Angel, twin sister of the late Aaron Carter, share her truth after losing t...
HBO’s “Harry Potter” television adaptation is slowly coming together, but we’re still a ways out from actually getting it on our screens. That said, we are learning more and more as the months go on.The series was first announced back in 2023, when HBO first launched the new name for its streaming service, Max. It has yet to be officially confirmed that each season will span one novel, similar to...
Universal Pictures has set a theatrical release date for DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island.” The animated feature will be released on Sept. 25, 2026.Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado will write and direct the feature film. While little has been revealed about the plot, the film is described as a “broad party comedy adventure that transports the film’s protagonists to a long forgotten, magica...
A few weeks ago, Rob Liefeld flew to Arizona to see his latest comic fresh off the printers. Holding the books in his hands, he admired the artistry, from the quality of the paper to the feel of the spine. A few hours later, he boarded a return flight to California, carrying with him 80 comics across five different editions of Youngblood, the title that launched Image Comics in 1992.It’s almost un...
The organizers of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony, the star-studded evening known informally as the Oscars of Science, should have thought twice before booking the famously unfiltered Seth Rogen to present an award — something they seemed to acknowledge when they cut out parts of his remarks from the official video that streamed on YouTube a week later. The Studio creator and star has a histo...
Jessica Capshaw is the latest addition to the cast of “9-1-1: Nashville” at ABC, Variety has learned.Capshaw will star in the “9-1-1” spinoff alongside previously announced cast member Chris O’Donnell. The show was originally announced in February and will debut during the 2025-2026 broadcast season. Exact plot details for the series are being kept under wraps, aside from the fact it will focus on...
Florence Pugh took a literal leap of faith while filming Thunderbolts*.When it came time to shoot the MCU’s latest installment, the Academy Award nominee practically had to beg the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, to allow her to perform a stunt that would see her jump off the second-tallest building in the world.“It was in the script, and then slowly as we got closer and closer to shooti...
Courtney Henggeler, who starred as Amanda Larusso in all six seasons of Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” series, is moving on from acting, she wrote in a Substack post on March 30.“After 20 plus years of fighting the good fight in the acting business, I hung up my gloves on Friday,” she wrote. “I called my agents and told them I was tapping out. I no longer wanted to be a cog in the wheel of the machine. Whe...
For the first time ever in Nielsen’s monthly Gauge reports, the 1o most-watched streaming titles were distributed by seven different platforms: Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Paramount+ Netflix and Apple TV+.Those titles included “Reacher” with 6.6 billion viewing minutes; “Family Guy” with 4.8 billion viewing minutes; “Bluey” with 4.8 billion viewing minutes; “The White Lotus” with 4.5 billion...
Iconic Hong Kong director Tsui Hark will be celebrated with a lifetime achievement award at Italy’s Far East Film Festival in Udine, where his latest film “Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants” will have its international festival premiere.Tsui will receive Udine’s Golden Mulberry Award from Tony Leung Ka-fai, best known for his roles in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “The Lover” based on the Marguer...
HBO is officially confirming the first cast members for the “Harry Potter” TV series.The cast now includes the following series regulars: John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, and Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid. It had previously been reported that all four actors were in talks for the show.In addition, Luke Thallon has joined in the rec...
You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Go here for more information.“The Last of Us” remains infectious on HBO, with the Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey-led drama returning with 5.3 million U.S. cross-platform viewers for its Season 2 debut, outpacing the Season 1 premiere by more than 10%.Season 1 would reach nearly 32 million viewers per...
Michelle Trachtenberg’s death at age 39 hit her legion of fans quite hard on Wednesday, and her onscreen sister from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was no different.Sarah Michelle Gellar quoted her iconic character in her tribute to the actress behind little sister Dawn on Thursday.“Michelle, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you. The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. I...
President Donald Trump this week introduced a new immigration plan he wants to implement, offering people the option to get a green card — or, rather, a gold card. And Stephen Colbert promptly shredded the concept on Wednesday night.According to Trump, a gold card would carry a price tag of $5 million, making it exclusively available to only exceedingly wealthy people from foreign countries.“Echoi...
Add Jimmy Kimmel to the list of people and political leaders who are appalled by “Trump Gaza.” The ABC host tore into the unsettling video during the latest episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”On Tuesday, the sitting president of the United States shared an AI-generated video highlighting what “Trump Gaza” could look like. It’s still unknown who created this video. This Truth Social post came after Tru...